Chapter 8
A/N: The next scene is in a castle.
A soft knocking was heard.
"Enter." came the voice of Lord Voldermont.
"Master." Wormtail replied.
"Were u successful in your mission?" Lord Voldermont asked.
"Yes M.M...Master." Wormtail said looking down at his feet, scared to death.
"Good. And what have you found out?" Lord Voldermont said, turning to face Wormtail.
"W...Well Master the Order has formed once again. And there are now new members."
"Who are they new members?" Voldermont asked.
"I....I.... I do not know." Wormtail said fearfully.
"You mean you came back to me with out knowing the new members of The Order of
Light?" Voldermont roared, then he pulled his wand and said, "Crucio."
Wormtail's screams were all that could be heard in the castle.
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A/N: Back to Hogwarts now.
It had been several weeks since anything of interest had happened at Hogwarts.
Classes carried on, no missions were to be had. Just the same ol, same ol. During this
time, Harry had spoken to Hermoine less and less. She spent a lot of time with James,
and a little with Ron, but everytime she got around Harry she didn't say much.
In the Gryffindor common room Ron and Harry played chess, while Michelle and
Hermoine sat and had some 'girl-talk', and James just laid on the couch off in another
world listening to music.
"Checkmate," Ron said, proudly.
"yeah, so, what else is new." Harry said
"Hey James." Ron said getting an idea, "you wanna play chess?"
Realizing James had his headphones on, Harry prodded him.
"yeah?" James said after he took off his headphones.
"Ron wants to know if you wanna play him at chess." Harry said.
"Sure," James said as he got up and walked over to the table where Ron sat and sat
down.
By then all the pieces had fixed themselves and were positioned perfectly.
Ron told James to move first.
He moved, then Ron, then James, then Ron. Then James looked suddenly in deep
concentration. He made a move, Ron made a move, then James suddenly relaxed,
made one more move and said simply, "Checkmate." James put his headphones back
on and walked back over the couch where he had been laying, laid back down and
drifted off.
Leaving a shocked Ron and Harry to stare at the chessboard.
"How did....?" Ron started to say, but seemed to have lost his voice.
"Ron, what happened?" Harry said dumbfounded.
"I don't know, I was just playing normally, then he made some totally unexpected
moves, and then I was dead. I don't know what happened." Ron said still in shock.
"What happened to the two of you?" Hermoine said noticing the faces of Ron and
Harry.
"James just beat Ron at chess in a little under 5 minutes." Harry said.
"Really? Wow." was all Hermoine said, turning back to Michelle and the two began
talking again.
Ron suddenly became mad. He walked over to James and got his attention and said,
rather angry, "Let's play again, I want a rematch."
"Aight." James said as he walked back over to the chessboard.
"Do u mind if I leave my headphones on, I really like this song." James asked Ron.
"Go ahead, we don't' have to talk to play." Ron said.
James just nodded his head and put the headphones back on.
James lead off again, after Ron refused to go first.
James moved, Ron moved. They went back and forth for a minute, then James moved
his castle exactly two spaces in front of Ron's king. Ron's king had no where to go.
James simply said, "Checkmate."
Ron looked as though he would either hit James, throw up, cry, or all three.
"It's aight man, everyone loses." James said not quite understanding Ron's reaction.
"But I never lose." Ron said.
"Hey man, everyone loses once in awhile. Even Jordan didn't win every game." Then
once Ron and Harry looked at him like he was insane, "Sorry, American Pop culture
reference."
James asked Ron if he wanted to play again, and Ron said yes.
This time James made Ron go first. By this time the girls had come over the see what
was going on.
James had his headphones on again and was bobbing his head as he played.
10 minutes later the end result was the same.
Ron grabbed his pieces, threw them to the floor, said "I quit." then got up and left.
"Maybe I shoulda let him win." James said as he walked back over to the couch he
started in and laid back down.
That night as everyone headed down to dinner. Ron turned to James and said, "Sorry
about earlier, I'm just not used to losing."
"There isn't anything wrong with not wanting to lose." James said.
The group was then joined by Malfoy, who greeted them with a quiet hello, and the
group headed to dinner.
At dinner the topics of discussion ranged from Quiddatch to Voldermont.
"I hate this just waiting." Hermoine said.
"Would you rather Voldermont kill someone?" Harry said a little bit to cold.
"Well of course not but, I mean I just hate sitting and waiting for something to happen."
Hermoine replied slightly hurt from Harry's tone.
"Yeah I'm sure you really mind just sitting around and waiting." Harry said, "you seem
so bored." Sarcasm was thick in his voice.
"Umm, I think we are going to go back to the common room." Ron said awkwardly,
indicating everyone but Harry and Hermoine.
Harry just nodded his head as he looked at Hermoine.
The group got up to leave.
Once they were gone Hermoine said, "What is that supposed to mean?"
"Not a damn thing." Harry said
Hermoine, a little taken aback by the anger coming from Harry, said, "Harry , what is
it?"
"Oh I don't know, just the fact that you have forgotten I was on the planet. That's all."
Harry said coldly.
"So YOU are complaining because I haven't been talking to you?" Hermoine said
becoming angry herself, "You egocentric, self-serving asshole. You have been ignoring
me for weeks."
"Are u completely daft?" Harry said in shock. "You haven't spoken three words to me in
one day since James got here."
"Oh," Hermoine said anger still thick in her voice. "I see, so I can't talk to any BOYS.
Only you and Ron, my FRIENDS." she drew out the end with thick sarcasm.
Harry was confused by the way she said friends, but dissmissed it.
Then Hermoine continued, "Besides, you are the one who hasn't spoken to me.
Anytime I get near you, you get a mad look on your face, and won't barely speak to
me."
Their voices were steadily rising. Luckily most people had finished eating and the
dining hall was almost empty.
"You are incredible." Harry said disdainfully, "you are the one running around with
James, probably sneaking off to snog in a closet or something."
"Just for your information, I haven't even kissed James, I don't like him like that."
Hermoine yelled more than yelled.
"Whatever Hermoine, " Harry yelled back, "You might as well start LYING to me now
anyways, you haven't been doing much else in the way of talking to me."
Hermoine then said, "I swear Harry you are an idiot."
With that Hermoine got up and left.
Harry just sat there fuming. Someone approached the other side of the table. Harry
looked up, and of course, there stood James.
"What's goin on man?" James said.
"Nothing," Harry said quickly and coldly.
"Come on man, you and Hermoine never fight. What's goin on?" James said.
"We just had a fight. That's all." Harry said.
"About what?" James asked. After Harry didn't say anything James said, "Come on
man, tell me, I can help make it better between you two."
"yeah that's just what I need." Harry replied, "No thanks, you have done enough
already.
James sat down, "What do you mean by that?"
"Well if u must know, ever since you got here Hermoine has been running around after
you, chasing you like a dog in heat." Harry said.
James looked at Harry for a second, then burst out laughing.
"I see.." James said between laughs, "what's goin......on.....here."
James seemed to calm down his laughs.
"You think that there is something going on between me and Hermoine?"
"Well of course there is." Harry said very pointedly.
"Well of course there's not." James said imitating Harry.
"What are u talking about? you are always together, you talk all the time." Harry said in
awe.
"Umm, I believe that a few years ago. People were saying the exact thing about the two
of you." James said an amused expression on his face.
Harry suddenly looked dumbfounded. "Oh my god, your right."
Harry then smacked himself on his head.
"I'm so stupid. I need to go apologize."
And then Harry looked back at James, "I'm sorry James, I didn't mean to jump to any
conclusions."
"It's allright man, but I'm not the one you need to be apologizing to." with that James got
up and left.
'I'm so stupid. All this time I thought Hermoine was just trying to get together with him.
When all she was doing was looking for a friend, because I haven't been a good friend
to her.' Harry thought.
He got up and exited the Great Hall, intent on going to find Hermoine and apologize,
when he saw Dumbledore walking down the hall toward him.
"Hello Professor." Harry said once Dumbledore had reached him.
"Hello Harry. Listen I need you to go retrieve the rest of the order and meet at my
office." Dumbledore told him.
Fearing the worst Harry said, "Is there something wrong?"
"No, I just need to speak with you all." Dumbledore said, eyes twinkling.
"Oh, Allright then" Harry walked off in the direction of the Gryffindor common room.
He turned suddenly and decided to go get Malfoy instead.
Once outside of the Slytherin common room Harry just waited for someone to come out.
Sure enough about 2 minutes later a first year came walking out.
Once the boy was outside Harry asked him what the password was to his common
room.
"I'm not supposed to tell anyone." the boy said.
Harry decided to exploit the fact that his boy was a 1st year, and almost 6 years
younger than him.
"Do you know who I am? I am the Head Boy of this school. And I am Harry Potter. Now
let me in this room." He said it a little louder than he intended, but it got the desired
effect.
"O..oo..OK." the boy stuttered.
The boy walked to the entrance and muttered something that Harry couldn't hear.
The entrance swung open, and Harry walked in.
This common room was more of dungeon than a common room.
There were a few couches and things but the walls were stone and cold.
He saw Malfoy walking toward him.
"What do u want Potter?" Malfoy said looking around to see if anyone had seen him
talking to Harry.
"Dumbledore wants us in his office." replied Harry.
Both boys then exited the common room and headed toward the Gryffindor common
room. Harry went inside while Malfoy sat outside.
He saw Ron, Michelle, and James sitting and talking.
He approached them and all of them began talking to him at once.
"She' been crying since she came back......."
"What happened........"
" I tried to explain but they said they wanted........"
"Guys Guys Guys," Harry said but it did nothing.
Finally Harry lost his patience and yelled, "SILENCE"
Everyone was quite suddenly.
"Now then," Harry began, "Dumbledore wants us in his office. Michelle please go get
Hermoine and bring her with you."
Harry turned on his heel and marched straight of the door.
Second later James and Ron followed.
"Did he say why?" Ron said sounding worried.
"No, but he said nothing was wrong." Harry said
A few seconds later the door opened and Michelle followed by a very upset looking
Hermoine came out.
Harry looked at Hermoine and felt his heart break, feeling instantly guilty about what he
had done. He looked way quickly to stop him from begging her for forgiveness right
there.
Harry walked off in the direction of Dumbledore's office, and the rest followed him.
They reached the outside of the office and Harry knocked.
Dumbledore met them at the door seconds later and told them to come in.
The walked in to find the same table and chairs there. With the rest of the members
sitting at the table.
James shot daggers at his dad as the group sat down.
"Now you are probably wondering why you are here." Dumbledore said and after nods
from everyone continued, "The reason you are here is because it is time we began to
intensify your training. Up until now you have just continued with your normal school
training. But we felt that it was time to speed up your progress. The first thing we will
concentrate on is Transfiguration. For that I will let Professor McGonagall take over."
Professor McGonagall, after a nod to Dumbledore, began speaking. "The first thing we
would like to do it see which of you is a candidate to become an anigmus."
To the happy faces and slight smiles she saw McGonagall said, "Don't get to happy, it
is doubtful that any of you will be a candidate for anigmus training. It is very difficult.
That's why there are so few of us."
It suddenly dawned on Harry that Professor McGonagall must be a very powerful witch,
because she was an anigmus.
"Now, to find out if you are a candidate, you first have to have your amulet. Does
everyone have their's?" Professor McGonagall asked.
Every pulled up a string around their necks that held their amulets, all of them had
decided to wear them at all times.
"Good." Professor McGonagall said, looking again like a teacher whose student had
remembered their homework.
"Now when you do what I'm about to tell you to do, I'm going to go ahead and tell you
that it's going to hurt, very badly. If anyone would like to stop just say so." Once no one
said anything Professor McGonagall continued, "everyone stand and place your amulet
in from of you on the table." The Professor ordered.
Everyone did this and she said, "Now place the tip of your wand on the amulet. Repeat
after me, Anigmi-requandre-paraleste. In turn. Are there any volunteers to go first?"
"Umm, Professor?" James said timidly.
"Oh yes, I forgot. Mr. Richardson and Mrs. Richardson are already full anigmus. They
will be exempt from this."
At the shocked faces from all of the younger members, Michelle said, "We learned the
summer that we did summer school."
James then said, "We know it's illegal, but we didn't' know if we would get into trouble
or not, so we just kept it to ourselves."
Harry then got a look of realization on his face, "You two wouldn't happen to be a
Unicorn and a Wolf would you?"
The pair of siblings looked shocked at this, then James said, "Umm yeah we would,
how did you know that?"
"I saw the two of you out of the window one night. I thought it was a dream. Apparently
it wasn't."
"As I was saying, " Professor McGonagall interrupted, "Is their anyone who would like
to go first?"
"I will." said Hermoine.
"Very well Miss Granger, proceed." McGonagall said.
Hermoine put the tip of her wand on the amulet and said,"Anigmi-requandre-paraleste"
A white bright light seem to come from her amulet and hit her in the chest. She got a
look on her face of extreme pain. She then began changing. She changed very slowly
until she started to take the shape of a bird. Once she was done changing she flew up
onto the table. Hermoine had turned into a beautiful pure white Eagle.
Second later she transformed back and got off of the table, once she stood her legs
buckled and she fell. Ron picked her up and put her in her chair.
"Excellent Hermoine. You are now a candidate." Professor McGonagall said.
"I'll go next." Ron said.
Professor McGonagall just nodded.
Ron put the tip of his wand onto the amulet and said, "Anigmi-requandre-paraleste."
The same thing happened to him that happened to Hermoine, except he was hit in the
chest by a red beam of light, and then proceeded to turn into a small read rinocerous.
Ron quickly changed back and fell to the floor where he was helped up by James.
"Well I suppose I will go next." Malfoy said.
He did the same as the other two, except a black beam was emitted from his amulet, he
changed into a very long and close to the ground creature, he had changed into a three
headed snake.
He changed back, and grabbed a chair before he could fall and sat down.
"Well I guess that just leaves me." Harry said.
He placed his wand on his amulet and said, "Anigmi-requandre-paraleste."
Harry was then his by a rainbow of colors in the chest. At first it didn't seem that
anything was going to happen, then he felt the worst pain of his life, about the same a
the Crucio curse he thought to himself, and then he began to change.
Harry beagn changing. He changed into a dragon, then to a pheonix, then to a dog,
then to a bird, then to a fish. Harry's insides seemed to be burning up. He kept rapidly
changing. After what seemed to be 5 or 10 minutes of changing so rapidly no one could
keep up, Harry stopped changing. He fell to the floor unconsious. Only to awake after 5
mintues.
When he awoke no one had moved, with the exception of Dumbledore and
McGonagall. They were both standing over him. Dumbeldore helped Harry up without a
word and sat down. He noticed the worried look on everyone's face, and then tears
streaming down Hermoine's face.
Harry tried to reassure her with a smile. But then he remembered she was mad at him.
"What happened to me Professor?" Harry asked Dumbledore.
Professor McGonagall answered him, "Harry, the reason that you turned so many
differant forms, is that you have so much anigmus potential inside of you, that your
body isn't magically attuned enough yet to handle all of your differant forms."
Dumbledore said, "Basically Harry, once you have had the right training, you will be
able to turn into any animal you wish." He said this with a small smile.
"But Harry I must warn you." Professor McGonagall then said, "Training to become a
single form anigmus is hard enough, but become a multiple form anigmus is extremely
difficult. There is only one person in the history of magic who had ever done it. And that
man was Merlin."
Harry looked slightly dissappointed, but never-the-less was hopefull.
"I am willing to try to learn." Harry said sternly.
"I'm not suprised at that." Dumbledore said.
After a momnet of silence, Hermoine spoke.
"When do we start training?"
"Tomorrow, first thing in the morning. It is to my understanding you all have
Transfiguration first on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. And Care of Magical
Creatures on Tuesday and Thursday. We have spoken with Hagrid. He gladly told us
that you could be excused from his class if it would help our cause. And Professor
McGonagall has told us that if you mastered Self-Transfiguration, you would receive
top marks in her class." Dumbledore told them.
"What about us?" James asked, referring to his sister and himself.
"You two will remain going to classes." Dumbledore said
"Damn." muttered James, then quickly said , "excuse me, I meant dang."
No one paid it a second thought.
"Well that is all for tonight. Meet here in the morning. 7:00 sharp." Dumbledore said.
The younger members got up and slowly walked down out of the office.
As the walked down the hallway everyone talked excitedly, everyone except Hermoine,
she still looked very upset.
Harry went to talk to her when he was intercepted by Michelle, "I would give her time
Harry, she's hurt."
Harry just nodded his head.
As Harry turned away from Michelle he heard someone behind him call his name.
Harry turned to notice Professor Dumbledore standing there.
The group stopped and looked at him. "Go ahead and go. I'll be along shortly."
The group walked off as Harry headed back toward Dumbledore.
"We need to speak Harry, privately."
With that the two of them headed back into Dumbledore's office.
A/N: The next scene is in a castle.
A soft knocking was heard.
"Enter." came the voice of Lord Voldermont.
"Master." Wormtail replied.
"Were u successful in your mission?" Lord Voldermont asked.
"Yes M.M...Master." Wormtail said looking down at his feet, scared to death.
"Good. And what have you found out?" Lord Voldermont said, turning to face Wormtail.
"W...Well Master the Order has formed once again. And there are now new members."
"Who are they new members?" Voldermont asked.
"I....I.... I do not know." Wormtail said fearfully.
"You mean you came back to me with out knowing the new members of The Order of
Light?" Voldermont roared, then he pulled his wand and said, "Crucio."
Wormtail's screams were all that could be heard in the castle.
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A/N: Back to Hogwarts now.
It had been several weeks since anything of interest had happened at Hogwarts.
Classes carried on, no missions were to be had. Just the same ol, same ol. During this
time, Harry had spoken to Hermoine less and less. She spent a lot of time with James,
and a little with Ron, but everytime she got around Harry she didn't say much.
In the Gryffindor common room Ron and Harry played chess, while Michelle and
Hermoine sat and had some 'girl-talk', and James just laid on the couch off in another
world listening to music.
"Checkmate," Ron said, proudly.
"yeah, so, what else is new." Harry said
"Hey James." Ron said getting an idea, "you wanna play chess?"
Realizing James had his headphones on, Harry prodded him.
"yeah?" James said after he took off his headphones.
"Ron wants to know if you wanna play him at chess." Harry said.
"Sure," James said as he got up and walked over to the table where Ron sat and sat
down.
By then all the pieces had fixed themselves and were positioned perfectly.
Ron told James to move first.
He moved, then Ron, then James, then Ron. Then James looked suddenly in deep
concentration. He made a move, Ron made a move, then James suddenly relaxed,
made one more move and said simply, "Checkmate." James put his headphones back
on and walked back over the couch where he had been laying, laid back down and
drifted off.
Leaving a shocked Ron and Harry to stare at the chessboard.
"How did....?" Ron started to say, but seemed to have lost his voice.
"Ron, what happened?" Harry said dumbfounded.
"I don't know, I was just playing normally, then he made some totally unexpected
moves, and then I was dead. I don't know what happened." Ron said still in shock.
"What happened to the two of you?" Hermoine said noticing the faces of Ron and
Harry.
"James just beat Ron at chess in a little under 5 minutes." Harry said.
"Really? Wow." was all Hermoine said, turning back to Michelle and the two began
talking again.
Ron suddenly became mad. He walked over to James and got his attention and said,
rather angry, "Let's play again, I want a rematch."
"Aight." James said as he walked back over to the chessboard.
"Do u mind if I leave my headphones on, I really like this song." James asked Ron.
"Go ahead, we don't' have to talk to play." Ron said.
James just nodded his head and put the headphones back on.
James lead off again, after Ron refused to go first.
James moved, Ron moved. They went back and forth for a minute, then James moved
his castle exactly two spaces in front of Ron's king. Ron's king had no where to go.
James simply said, "Checkmate."
Ron looked as though he would either hit James, throw up, cry, or all three.
"It's aight man, everyone loses." James said not quite understanding Ron's reaction.
"But I never lose." Ron said.
"Hey man, everyone loses once in awhile. Even Jordan didn't win every game." Then
once Ron and Harry looked at him like he was insane, "Sorry, American Pop culture
reference."
James asked Ron if he wanted to play again, and Ron said yes.
This time James made Ron go first. By this time the girls had come over the see what
was going on.
James had his headphones on again and was bobbing his head as he played.
10 minutes later the end result was the same.
Ron grabbed his pieces, threw them to the floor, said "I quit." then got up and left.
"Maybe I shoulda let him win." James said as he walked back over to the couch he
started in and laid back down.
That night as everyone headed down to dinner. Ron turned to James and said, "Sorry
about earlier, I'm just not used to losing."
"There isn't anything wrong with not wanting to lose." James said.
The group was then joined by Malfoy, who greeted them with a quiet hello, and the
group headed to dinner.
At dinner the topics of discussion ranged from Quiddatch to Voldermont.
"I hate this just waiting." Hermoine said.
"Would you rather Voldermont kill someone?" Harry said a little bit to cold.
"Well of course not but, I mean I just hate sitting and waiting for something to happen."
Hermoine replied slightly hurt from Harry's tone.
"Yeah I'm sure you really mind just sitting around and waiting." Harry said, "you seem
so bored." Sarcasm was thick in his voice.
"Umm, I think we are going to go back to the common room." Ron said awkwardly,
indicating everyone but Harry and Hermoine.
Harry just nodded his head as he looked at Hermoine.
The group got up to leave.
Once they were gone Hermoine said, "What is that supposed to mean?"
"Not a damn thing." Harry said
Hermoine, a little taken aback by the anger coming from Harry, said, "Harry , what is
it?"
"Oh I don't know, just the fact that you have forgotten I was on the planet. That's all."
Harry said coldly.
"So YOU are complaining because I haven't been talking to you?" Hermoine said
becoming angry herself, "You egocentric, self-serving asshole. You have been ignoring
me for weeks."
"Are u completely daft?" Harry said in shock. "You haven't spoken three words to me in
one day since James got here."
"Oh," Hermoine said anger still thick in her voice. "I see, so I can't talk to any BOYS.
Only you and Ron, my FRIENDS." she drew out the end with thick sarcasm.
Harry was confused by the way she said friends, but dissmissed it.
Then Hermoine continued, "Besides, you are the one who hasn't spoken to me.
Anytime I get near you, you get a mad look on your face, and won't barely speak to
me."
Their voices were steadily rising. Luckily most people had finished eating and the
dining hall was almost empty.
"You are incredible." Harry said disdainfully, "you are the one running around with
James, probably sneaking off to snog in a closet or something."
"Just for your information, I haven't even kissed James, I don't like him like that."
Hermoine yelled more than yelled.
"Whatever Hermoine, " Harry yelled back, "You might as well start LYING to me now
anyways, you haven't been doing much else in the way of talking to me."
Hermoine then said, "I swear Harry you are an idiot."
With that Hermoine got up and left.
Harry just sat there fuming. Someone approached the other side of the table. Harry
looked up, and of course, there stood James.
"What's goin on man?" James said.
"Nothing," Harry said quickly and coldly.
"Come on man, you and Hermoine never fight. What's goin on?" James said.
"We just had a fight. That's all." Harry said.
"About what?" James asked. After Harry didn't say anything James said, "Come on
man, tell me, I can help make it better between you two."
"yeah that's just what I need." Harry replied, "No thanks, you have done enough
already.
James sat down, "What do you mean by that?"
"Well if u must know, ever since you got here Hermoine has been running around after
you, chasing you like a dog in heat." Harry said.
James looked at Harry for a second, then burst out laughing.
"I see.." James said between laughs, "what's goin......on.....here."
James seemed to calm down his laughs.
"You think that there is something going on between me and Hermoine?"
"Well of course there is." Harry said very pointedly.
"Well of course there's not." James said imitating Harry.
"What are u talking about? you are always together, you talk all the time." Harry said in
awe.
"Umm, I believe that a few years ago. People were saying the exact thing about the two
of you." James said an amused expression on his face.
Harry suddenly looked dumbfounded. "Oh my god, your right."
Harry then smacked himself on his head.
"I'm so stupid. I need to go apologize."
And then Harry looked back at James, "I'm sorry James, I didn't mean to jump to any
conclusions."
"It's allright man, but I'm not the one you need to be apologizing to." with that James got
up and left.
'I'm so stupid. All this time I thought Hermoine was just trying to get together with him.
When all she was doing was looking for a friend, because I haven't been a good friend
to her.' Harry thought.
He got up and exited the Great Hall, intent on going to find Hermoine and apologize,
when he saw Dumbledore walking down the hall toward him.
"Hello Professor." Harry said once Dumbledore had reached him.
"Hello Harry. Listen I need you to go retrieve the rest of the order and meet at my
office." Dumbledore told him.
Fearing the worst Harry said, "Is there something wrong?"
"No, I just need to speak with you all." Dumbledore said, eyes twinkling.
"Oh, Allright then" Harry walked off in the direction of the Gryffindor common room.
He turned suddenly and decided to go get Malfoy instead.
Once outside of the Slytherin common room Harry just waited for someone to come out.
Sure enough about 2 minutes later a first year came walking out.
Once the boy was outside Harry asked him what the password was to his common
room.
"I'm not supposed to tell anyone." the boy said.
Harry decided to exploit the fact that his boy was a 1st year, and almost 6 years
younger than him.
"Do you know who I am? I am the Head Boy of this school. And I am Harry Potter. Now
let me in this room." He said it a little louder than he intended, but it got the desired
effect.
"O..oo..OK." the boy stuttered.
The boy walked to the entrance and muttered something that Harry couldn't hear.
The entrance swung open, and Harry walked in.
This common room was more of dungeon than a common room.
There were a few couches and things but the walls were stone and cold.
He saw Malfoy walking toward him.
"What do u want Potter?" Malfoy said looking around to see if anyone had seen him
talking to Harry.
"Dumbledore wants us in his office." replied Harry.
Both boys then exited the common room and headed toward the Gryffindor common
room. Harry went inside while Malfoy sat outside.
He saw Ron, Michelle, and James sitting and talking.
He approached them and all of them began talking to him at once.
"She' been crying since she came back......."
"What happened........"
" I tried to explain but they said they wanted........"
"Guys Guys Guys," Harry said but it did nothing.
Finally Harry lost his patience and yelled, "SILENCE"
Everyone was quite suddenly.
"Now then," Harry began, "Dumbledore wants us in his office. Michelle please go get
Hermoine and bring her with you."
Harry turned on his heel and marched straight of the door.
Second later James and Ron followed.
"Did he say why?" Ron said sounding worried.
"No, but he said nothing was wrong." Harry said
A few seconds later the door opened and Michelle followed by a very upset looking
Hermoine came out.
Harry looked at Hermoine and felt his heart break, feeling instantly guilty about what he
had done. He looked way quickly to stop him from begging her for forgiveness right
there.
Harry walked off in the direction of Dumbledore's office, and the rest followed him.
They reached the outside of the office and Harry knocked.
Dumbledore met them at the door seconds later and told them to come in.
The walked in to find the same table and chairs there. With the rest of the members
sitting at the table.
James shot daggers at his dad as the group sat down.
"Now you are probably wondering why you are here." Dumbledore said and after nods
from everyone continued, "The reason you are here is because it is time we began to
intensify your training. Up until now you have just continued with your normal school
training. But we felt that it was time to speed up your progress. The first thing we will
concentrate on is Transfiguration. For that I will let Professor McGonagall take over."
Professor McGonagall, after a nod to Dumbledore, began speaking. "The first thing we
would like to do it see which of you is a candidate to become an anigmus."
To the happy faces and slight smiles she saw McGonagall said, "Don't get to happy, it
is doubtful that any of you will be a candidate for anigmus training. It is very difficult.
That's why there are so few of us."
It suddenly dawned on Harry that Professor McGonagall must be a very powerful witch,
because she was an anigmus.
"Now, to find out if you are a candidate, you first have to have your amulet. Does
everyone have their's?" Professor McGonagall asked.
Every pulled up a string around their necks that held their amulets, all of them had
decided to wear them at all times.
"Good." Professor McGonagall said, looking again like a teacher whose student had
remembered their homework.
"Now when you do what I'm about to tell you to do, I'm going to go ahead and tell you
that it's going to hurt, very badly. If anyone would like to stop just say so." Once no one
said anything Professor McGonagall continued, "everyone stand and place your amulet
in from of you on the table." The Professor ordered.
Everyone did this and she said, "Now place the tip of your wand on the amulet. Repeat
after me, Anigmi-requandre-paraleste. In turn. Are there any volunteers to go first?"
"Umm, Professor?" James said timidly.
"Oh yes, I forgot. Mr. Richardson and Mrs. Richardson are already full anigmus. They
will be exempt from this."
At the shocked faces from all of the younger members, Michelle said, "We learned the
summer that we did summer school."
James then said, "We know it's illegal, but we didn't' know if we would get into trouble
or not, so we just kept it to ourselves."
Harry then got a look of realization on his face, "You two wouldn't happen to be a
Unicorn and a Wolf would you?"
The pair of siblings looked shocked at this, then James said, "Umm yeah we would,
how did you know that?"
"I saw the two of you out of the window one night. I thought it was a dream. Apparently
it wasn't."
"As I was saying, " Professor McGonagall interrupted, "Is their anyone who would like
to go first?"
"I will." said Hermoine.
"Very well Miss Granger, proceed." McGonagall said.
Hermoine put the tip of her wand on the amulet and said,"Anigmi-requandre-paraleste"
A white bright light seem to come from her amulet and hit her in the chest. She got a
look on her face of extreme pain. She then began changing. She changed very slowly
until she started to take the shape of a bird. Once she was done changing she flew up
onto the table. Hermoine had turned into a beautiful pure white Eagle.
Second later she transformed back and got off of the table, once she stood her legs
buckled and she fell. Ron picked her up and put her in her chair.
"Excellent Hermoine. You are now a candidate." Professor McGonagall said.
"I'll go next." Ron said.
Professor McGonagall just nodded.
Ron put the tip of his wand onto the amulet and said, "Anigmi-requandre-paraleste."
The same thing happened to him that happened to Hermoine, except he was hit in the
chest by a red beam of light, and then proceeded to turn into a small read rinocerous.
Ron quickly changed back and fell to the floor where he was helped up by James.
"Well I suppose I will go next." Malfoy said.
He did the same as the other two, except a black beam was emitted from his amulet, he
changed into a very long and close to the ground creature, he had changed into a three
headed snake.
He changed back, and grabbed a chair before he could fall and sat down.
"Well I guess that just leaves me." Harry said.
He placed his wand on his amulet and said, "Anigmi-requandre-paraleste."
Harry was then his by a rainbow of colors in the chest. At first it didn't seem that
anything was going to happen, then he felt the worst pain of his life, about the same a
the Crucio curse he thought to himself, and then he began to change.
Harry beagn changing. He changed into a dragon, then to a pheonix, then to a dog,
then to a bird, then to a fish. Harry's insides seemed to be burning up. He kept rapidly
changing. After what seemed to be 5 or 10 minutes of changing so rapidly no one could
keep up, Harry stopped changing. He fell to the floor unconsious. Only to awake after 5
mintues.
When he awoke no one had moved, with the exception of Dumbledore and
McGonagall. They were both standing over him. Dumbeldore helped Harry up without a
word and sat down. He noticed the worried look on everyone's face, and then tears
streaming down Hermoine's face.
Harry tried to reassure her with a smile. But then he remembered she was mad at him.
"What happened to me Professor?" Harry asked Dumbledore.
Professor McGonagall answered him, "Harry, the reason that you turned so many
differant forms, is that you have so much anigmus potential inside of you, that your
body isn't magically attuned enough yet to handle all of your differant forms."
Dumbledore said, "Basically Harry, once you have had the right training, you will be
able to turn into any animal you wish." He said this with a small smile.
"But Harry I must warn you." Professor McGonagall then said, "Training to become a
single form anigmus is hard enough, but become a multiple form anigmus is extremely
difficult. There is only one person in the history of magic who had ever done it. And that
man was Merlin."
Harry looked slightly dissappointed, but never-the-less was hopefull.
"I am willing to try to learn." Harry said sternly.
"I'm not suprised at that." Dumbledore said.
After a momnet of silence, Hermoine spoke.
"When do we start training?"
"Tomorrow, first thing in the morning. It is to my understanding you all have
Transfiguration first on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. And Care of Magical
Creatures on Tuesday and Thursday. We have spoken with Hagrid. He gladly told us
that you could be excused from his class if it would help our cause. And Professor
McGonagall has told us that if you mastered Self-Transfiguration, you would receive
top marks in her class." Dumbledore told them.
"What about us?" James asked, referring to his sister and himself.
"You two will remain going to classes." Dumbledore said
"Damn." muttered James, then quickly said , "excuse me, I meant dang."
No one paid it a second thought.
"Well that is all for tonight. Meet here in the morning. 7:00 sharp." Dumbledore said.
The younger members got up and slowly walked down out of the office.
As the walked down the hallway everyone talked excitedly, everyone except Hermoine,
she still looked very upset.
Harry went to talk to her when he was intercepted by Michelle, "I would give her time
Harry, she's hurt."
Harry just nodded his head.
As Harry turned away from Michelle he heard someone behind him call his name.
Harry turned to notice Professor Dumbledore standing there.
The group stopped and looked at him. "Go ahead and go. I'll be along shortly."
The group walked off as Harry headed back toward Dumbledore.
"We need to speak Harry, privately."
With that the two of them headed back into Dumbledore's office.